The Ranger is a vicious fighter who gives you no opportunity to explain your mission. Forced to fight, you must use all your skill and remaining strength to defeat him. In the end he falls, struck more by luck than finesse across the back of the neck. Quickly you search his limp form and find a note, it appears to be a set of general orders from his superiors in Das Frontiere, ordering all Rangers on the frontier to detain any Dwarvendim found at large in the province. This explains why the Ranger has attacked you, for most of these soldiers the word "detain" has another, more sinister overtone - kill on sight and bring back the body.
Remounting Pallenten you leave the Ranger where he fell. You do not have the time to bury him and have no wish to be found by another of his kind. It is time to move on.

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